Rancher. Son of Charles Lackey and Mary E Hudson. Informant on Death Certificate: Mark Lackey
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James E. Lackey, Pioneer of Irion
Services for James Ernest Lackey, 84, an Irion County pioneer and survivor of the disastrous flood which destroyed Sherwood and Ben Ficklin in 1882, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the First methodist Church in Mertzon.
The Rev. Gordon Miller, pastor, and M. H. Carr, Church of Christ Layman, both of Mertzon, will officiate. Burial will be in Sherwood Cemetery under direct of Johnson's Funeral Home of San Angelo.
He died at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday in Shannon Hospital. Mr. Lackey was born May 25, 1875, at Smith Grove, Ky., and moved with his family to Irion County in 1880.
In an interview recently with a Standard-Times writer, Mr. Lackey recalled how he perched in the top of a tree near the bank of Spring Creek when the flood of 1882 dealt its death to Sherwood and then further downstream, to Ben Ficklin.
Mr. Lackey recalled that when the flood hit Sherwood it destroyed the family house, and he, his parents, brothers and sisters, spent the night and next day perched in a large oak tree barely above the surging waters. The Oak tree still stands.
Mr. Lackey was in Shannon Hospital at the time of the interview for a stay of about one week because of a condition that he said "dries up my blood and I have to come in and get a new supply about once a year."
When Mr. Lackey was only 5 months old, his family brought him to Texas, coming to Round Rock by train and the rest of the way to Ben Ficklin by wagon. They were a month on the road from Round Rock to Ben Ficklin.
Lackey's uncle, John Lackey, acquired 315 acres of land on the east bank of Spring Creek, and in 1874 put the land under irrigation -- the first project of the kind on Spring Creek. A portion of the uncleared, irrigated land was acquired by Ernest Lackey's father, Charlie Lackey, and Ernest Lackey spent his youth and early manhood on the place. For 40 years he either worked or managed the farm.
Mr. Lackey and Lena Hodge were married Sept. 22, 1901, in the lobby of the old Landon Hotel in San Angelo. They made the wedding trip from Sherwood to San Angelo in a buggy, and took their honeymoon trip back to Sherwood that day so he could bale hay the next day.
For four years the couple farmed, but he had homesteaded a section of land, and when more school land was opened to the market in 1902, he was awarded three more sections about five miles northeast of Sherwood. With his family, he moved to that ranch in 1903. In the 1940s, the Lackeys bought a large house in Mertzon, where they have lived since.
Mr. Lackey was a member of the First Methodist Church in Mertzon at which he was present for the church's first service in 1884.
Survivors include his wife; one son, Mark Lackey of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey DeLong of Mertzon; one brother, G. S. Lackey of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Madie Blair, Mrs. Savannah Bowles and Mrs. Alice McDonough, all of Fort Worth; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Lake Tankersley, Guy Hargrave, Francis Shelton and Henry Clark, Jr., all of Mertzon; Sam Oglesby of El Dorado and Jimmie McManus of San Angelo.
Members of the Men's Bible Class of Mertzon will be honorary pallbearers.
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San Angelo Standard-Times
March 6, 1963
Page 2A
Obituary provided by Scott Lackey
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James E. Lackey, Pioneer of Irion
Services for James Ernest Lackey, 84, an Irion County pioneer and survivor of the disastrous flood which destroyed Sherwood and Ben Ficklin in 1882, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the First methodist Church in Mertzon.
The Rev. Gordon Miller, pastor, and M. H. Carr, Church of Christ Layman, both of Mertzon, will officiate. Burial will be in Sherwood Cemetery under direct of Johnson's Funeral Home of San Angelo.
He died at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday in Shannon Hospital. Mr. Lackey was born May 25, 1875, at Smith Grove, Ky., and moved with his family to Irion County in 1880.
In an interview recently with a Standard-Times writer, Mr. Lackey recalled how he perched in the top of a tree near the bank of Spring Creek when the flood of 1882 dealt its death to Sherwood and then further downstream, to Ben Ficklin.
Mr. Lackey recalled that when the flood hit Sherwood it destroyed the family house, and he, his parents, brothers and sisters, spent the night and next day perched in a large oak tree barely above the surging waters. The Oak tree still stands.
Mr. Lackey was in Shannon Hospital at the time of the interview for a stay of about one week because of a condition that he said "dries up my blood and I have to come in and get a new supply about once a year."
When Mr. Lackey was only 5 months old, his family brought him to Texas, coming to Round Rock by train and the rest of the way to Ben Ficklin by wagon. They were a month on the road from Round Rock to Ben Ficklin.
Lackey's uncle, John Lackey, acquired 315 acres of land on the east bank of Spring Creek, and in 1874 put the land under irrigation -- the first project of the kind on Spring Creek. A portion of the uncleared, irrigated land was acquired by Ernest Lackey's father, Charlie Lackey, and Ernest Lackey spent his youth and early manhood on the place. For 40 years he either worked or managed the farm.
Mr. Lackey and Lena Hodge were married Sept. 22, 1901, in the lobby of the old Landon Hotel in San Angelo. They made the wedding trip from Sherwood to San Angelo in a buggy, and took their honeymoon trip back to Sherwood that day so he could bale hay the next day.
For four years the couple farmed, but he had homesteaded a section of land, and when more school land was opened to the market in 1902, he was awarded three more sections about five miles northeast of Sherwood. With his family, he moved to that ranch in 1903. In the 1940s, the Lackeys bought a large house in Mertzon, where they have lived since.
Mr. Lackey was a member of the First Methodist Church in Mertzon at which he was present for the church's first service in 1884.
Survivors include his wife; one son, Mark Lackey of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey DeLong of Mertzon; one brother, G. S. Lackey of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Madie Blair, Mrs. Savannah Bowles and Mrs. Alice McDonough, all of Fort Worth; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Lake Tankersley, Guy Hargrave, Francis Shelton and Henry Clark, Jr., all of Mertzon; Sam Oglesby of El Dorado and Jimmie McManus of San Angelo.
Members of the Men's Bible Class of Mertzon will be honorary pallbearers.
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San Angelo Standard-Times
March 6, 1963
Page 2A
Obituary provided by Scott Lackey
Rancher. Son of Charles Lackey and Mary E Hudson. Informant on Death Certificate: Mark Lackey
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James E. Lackey, Pioneer of Irion
Services for James Ernest Lackey, 84, an Irion County pioneer and survivor of the disastrous flood which destroyed Sherwood and Ben Ficklin in 1882, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the First methodist Church in Mertzon.
The Rev. Gordon Miller, pastor, and M. H. Carr, Church of Christ Layman, both of Mertzon, will officiate. Burial will be in Sherwood Cemetery under direct of Johnson's Funeral Home of San Angelo.
He died at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday in Shannon Hospital. Mr. Lackey was born May 25, 1875, at Smith Grove, Ky., and moved with his family to Irion County in 1880.
In an interview recently with a Standard-Times writer, Mr. Lackey recalled how he perched in the top of a tree near the bank of Spring Creek when the flood of 1882 dealt its death to Sherwood and then further downstream, to Ben Ficklin.
Mr. Lackey recalled that when the flood hit Sherwood it destroyed the family house, and he, his parents, brothers and sisters, spent the night and next day perched in a large oak tree barely above the surging waters. The Oak tree still stands.
Mr. Lackey was in Shannon Hospital at the time of the interview for a stay of about one week because of a condition that he said "dries up my blood and I have to come in and get a new supply about once a year."
When Mr. Lackey was only 5 months old, his family brought him to Texas, coming to Round Rock by train and the rest of the way to Ben Ficklin by wagon. They were a month on the road from Round Rock to Ben Ficklin.
Lackey's uncle, John Lackey, acquired 315 acres of land on the east bank of Spring Creek, and in 1874 put the land under irrigation -- the first project of the kind on Spring Creek. A portion of the uncleared, irrigated land was acquired by Ernest Lackey's father, Charlie Lackey, and Ernest Lackey spent his youth and early manhood on the place. For 40 years he either worked or managed the farm.
Mr. Lackey and Lena Hodge were married Sept. 22, 1901, in the lobby of the old Landon Hotel in San Angelo. They made the wedding trip from Sherwood to San Angelo in a buggy, and took their honeymoon trip back to Sherwood that day so he could bale hay the next day.
For four years the couple farmed, but he had homesteaded a section of land, and when more school land was opened to the market in 1902, he was awarded three more sections about five miles northeast of Sherwood. With his family, he moved to that ranch in 1903. In the 1940s, the Lackeys bought a large house in Mertzon, where they have lived since.
Mr. Lackey was a member of the First Methodist Church in Mertzon at which he was present for the church's first service in 1884.
Survivors include his wife; one son, Mark Lackey of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey DeLong of Mertzon; one brother, G. S. Lackey of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Madie Blair, Mrs. Savannah Bowles and Mrs. Alice McDonough, all of Fort Worth; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Lake Tankersley, Guy Hargrave, Francis Shelton and Henry Clark, Jr., all of Mertzon; Sam Oglesby of El Dorado and Jimmie McManus of San Angelo.
Members of the Men's Bible Class of Mertzon will be honorary pallbearers.
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San Angelo Standard-Times
March 6, 1963
Page 2A
Obituary provided by Scott Lackey
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James E. Lackey, Pioneer of Irion
Services for James Ernest Lackey, 84, an Irion County pioneer and survivor of the disastrous flood which destroyed Sherwood and Ben Ficklin in 1882, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the First methodist Church in Mertzon.
The Rev. Gordon Miller, pastor, and M. H. Carr, Church of Christ Layman, both of Mertzon, will officiate. Burial will be in Sherwood Cemetery under direct of Johnson's Funeral Home of San Angelo.
He died at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday in Shannon Hospital. Mr. Lackey was born May 25, 1875, at Smith Grove, Ky., and moved with his family to Irion County in 1880.
In an interview recently with a Standard-Times writer, Mr. Lackey recalled how he perched in the top of a tree near the bank of Spring Creek when the flood of 1882 dealt its death to Sherwood and then further downstream, to Ben Ficklin.
Mr. Lackey recalled that when the flood hit Sherwood it destroyed the family house, and he, his parents, brothers and sisters, spent the night and next day perched in a large oak tree barely above the surging waters. The Oak tree still stands.
Mr. Lackey was in Shannon Hospital at the time of the interview for a stay of about one week because of a condition that he said "dries up my blood and I have to come in and get a new supply about once a year."
When Mr. Lackey was only 5 months old, his family brought him to Texas, coming to Round Rock by train and the rest of the way to Ben Ficklin by wagon. They were a month on the road from Round Rock to Ben Ficklin.
Lackey's uncle, John Lackey, acquired 315 acres of land on the east bank of Spring Creek, and in 1874 put the land under irrigation -- the first project of the kind on Spring Creek. A portion of the uncleared, irrigated land was acquired by Ernest Lackey's father, Charlie Lackey, and Ernest Lackey spent his youth and early manhood on the place. For 40 years he either worked or managed the farm.
Mr. Lackey and Lena Hodge were married Sept. 22, 1901, in the lobby of the old Landon Hotel in San Angelo. They made the wedding trip from Sherwood to San Angelo in a buggy, and took their honeymoon trip back to Sherwood that day so he could bale hay the next day.
For four years the couple farmed, but he had homesteaded a section of land, and when more school land was opened to the market in 1902, he was awarded three more sections about five miles northeast of Sherwood. With his family, he moved to that ranch in 1903. In the 1940s, the Lackeys bought a large house in Mertzon, where they have lived since.
Mr. Lackey was a member of the First Methodist Church in Mertzon at which he was present for the church's first service in 1884.
Survivors include his wife; one son, Mark Lackey of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey DeLong of Mertzon; one brother, G. S. Lackey of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Madie Blair, Mrs. Savannah Bowles and Mrs. Alice McDonough, all of Fort Worth; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Lake Tankersley, Guy Hargrave, Francis Shelton and Henry Clark, Jr., all of Mertzon; Sam Oglesby of El Dorado and Jimmie McManus of San Angelo.
Members of the Men's Bible Class of Mertzon will be honorary pallbearers.
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San Angelo Standard-Times
March 6, 1963
Page 2A
Obituary provided by Scott Lackey
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